Vollmann (was: Re: PoMo Studies Hoax (gets taken seriously))

[rich]

Yes, you can read it as standalone, Becky.

One word of caution: it's extremely long even for Vollmann. took me at
least three months to get through, not to mention lugging that doorstop
onto the train commuting to work

rich

On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 2:20 PM Becky Lindroos <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

> Do you need the intervening books of the series to make sense of The Dying
> Grass?   If not,  if it can be a standalone,  I’ll pick it up next!
>
>
> Becky
> https://beckylindroos.wordpress.com
>
> > On Oct 10, 2018, at 11:03 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I would recommend the Dying Grass, the last Seven Dream installment to
> be published. there's hardly any of the William the Blind distractions
> where WV inserts himself into the narrative in Fathers & Crows, Argall
> (which I couldnt finish), etc.. also its an unsparing look at white racism
> (subtle or not) and brutality balanced with a more realistic portrayal of
> the Nez Perce (warts and all) as human beings not solely seen as martyrs or
> victims.
> >
> > rich
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 1:55 PM Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
> lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
> >
> > I'm reading "Poor People" (in the translation - "Arme Leute" - of Robin
> Detje, Berlin 2018: edition suhrkamp) & enjoying it a lot. Vollmann is, in
> my humble opinion, best when he's working based on primary experiences of
> his own. Unlike Pynchon, he's not so good with secondary sources, at least
> I was not convinced by "Europe Central" at all. But where he goes into the
> field - like in "The Rainbow Stories", "The Royal Family" or, case in
> question, "Poor People" - he's developing the particular sensitivity Hubert
> Fichte, a German writer with a similar approach, called the "ethnopoetic"
> style. It's better than social science, --- it's true in a human
> respectively existential sense.
> >
> > > The genius of Poor People is how Vollmann demonstrates the
> arbitrariness of the line we draw between “self” and “other.” <
> >
> >
> http://quarterlyconversation.com/poor-people-by-william-t-vollmann-review
> > --------------------------------------------------------
> >
> https://www.hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/2017/hubert_fichte/hubert_fichte_start.php
> >
> > Am 08.10.2018 um 17:43 schrieb Becky Lindroos:
> >
> > finally reading Wm Vollmann’s “The Ice Shirt”   -  sigh - loving it -
> >
> >
> >
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